During this process, nasal cilia beat in a coordinated fashion to transport foreign entities captured in mucus away from the nose. A further barrier to nasal delivery is the existence of tight ...

“Saline irrigation can enhance the function of nasal cilia, those microscopic hairs that are responsible for moving mucus and trapped particles out of the nasal passages,” says John ...

When the sticky mucus traps these particles, tiny hairs called cilia move the mucus and debris to the front of your nose. The ...

Read on for all the details. You might assume that nose hair is the same as the rest of the hair you grow, but it's slightly different. Cilia (the technical term for nose hair) is part of the ...

USA: A recent study has shed light on the progression of otologic and nasal symptoms in children with primary ciliary ...

We don’t know much about the regulation of endocytosis and cell-to-cell transport in the muco-ciliary epithelium of the upper respiratory tract. Viruses, on the other hand, know all about it. We use ...